TopFuel@Lions
Nitro Member
The silver suited looking gladiator had that GOAT in the right lane, it was a summer night under those awesome lights. He was all suited up sans gloves, he walked up to the car, opened the door and slipped in this left hand drive thing of beauty. He buckled in, put his ultra cool goggles on top of his sweet helmet with classic Simpson style breather mask. That cool big-block got a couple of squirts of happy juice to fire up, then the magic began.
The usual packed house was ready for some action, the GTO pulled forward, did it's initial "burn thru." That awesome Northern Californian car with Goodies Speed Shop adoring the side was ready for a quarter mile pass, not this 1000 foot stuff. The striped shirt, pipe smoking cowboy hat starter looked 'em over.
The time was now for another great run down this iconic strip that lead the nation for weekly competition, at that mash of the throttle, the transmission va-voomed in a huge fireball to be in the history books as one of the greatest starting line fireballs ever captured on film. The starting line crew was quick on the draw to unload the fire extinguishers, the driver came out of the heavily smoking car that hung in the air, the starter had suggested that this driver may want to have some gloves. The discharge of the fire suppression equipment, the transmission discharge, and the heavy summer ocean air seemed to hang in the air a long time
I was standing just a few close feet from that Pontiac right at the fence with a smoking and smoldering piece of tranny right at my feet, my dad was right behind his son as we were weekly attendees at this famous strip.
That is is how it was when Lew Arrington grenaded his tranny in August of 1967 at the dang greatest drag strip of all dang time, the unequaled, best weekly drag strip of all time period....Lions Drag Strip!!!!!!!!!!!
TopFuel@Lions
The Anti Reposter..lol
The usual packed house was ready for some action, the GTO pulled forward, did it's initial "burn thru." That awesome Northern Californian car with Goodies Speed Shop adoring the side was ready for a quarter mile pass, not this 1000 foot stuff. The striped shirt, pipe smoking cowboy hat starter looked 'em over.
The time was now for another great run down this iconic strip that lead the nation for weekly competition, at that mash of the throttle, the transmission va-voomed in a huge fireball to be in the history books as one of the greatest starting line fireballs ever captured on film. The starting line crew was quick on the draw to unload the fire extinguishers, the driver came out of the heavily smoking car that hung in the air, the starter had suggested that this driver may want to have some gloves. The discharge of the fire suppression equipment, the transmission discharge, and the heavy summer ocean air seemed to hang in the air a long time
I was standing just a few close feet from that Pontiac right at the fence with a smoking and smoldering piece of tranny right at my feet, my dad was right behind his son as we were weekly attendees at this famous strip.
That is is how it was when Lew Arrington grenaded his tranny in August of 1967 at the dang greatest drag strip of all dang time, the unequaled, best weekly drag strip of all time period....Lions Drag Strip!!!!!!!!!!!
TopFuel@Lions
The Anti Reposter..lol
